Kalumbila Town was always going to be a mining town with a difference. Essentially, it was built to grow.
But for Kalumbila Town to outlive the mine that it hosts, it needs to attract entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes,...
When President Hakainde Hichilema’s Government announced that, come 10 January 2022, education would be free for the country’s nearly 8 million children, it felt like a watershed moment to many Zambians, and a decision that would change the course...
What was your dream when you were at school? What did you want to become?
To be honest, when I went to school – this was in the former Rhodesia – career aspirations were limited to the professionals that we...
It's 7am and 13 young women are seated around a table in the centre of Nsanshi Art’s spacious workshop, sunlight streaming through the wide windows. Clamps and jeweller’s saws and torches lie on workstations around them, waiting for the...
It may come as a surprise that child marriage is still a serious problem in the communities around Solwezi. After all, you might have heard that the legal age for marriage in Zambia is eighteen, just like in most...
Mine rescue teams from ten leading Zambian mining companies joined forces this month in a collaborative, first-of-its-kind training session. The aim? To enhance safety and rescue standards across Zambia’s mining industry.
The event was hosted at First Quantum Minerals’ Kansanshi...
After a speeding Kitwe-bound bus crashed on the Pedicle Road in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in May 2016, killing more than 30 people and injuring several others, the first number surviving passengers called from their cellphones was 39-39 –...
The most interesting thing about the mining industry’s social investment in communities is not so much the money they spend, as the original and innovative ways in which they spend it.
Over some 15 years, and through the design and...
Let’s take a moment to look back at one of the 2019 success stories that’s worth celebrating: The farmers following Kansanshi’s Conservation Farming Program who have turned their subsistence farms into profitable businesses!
When, in 2010, Kansanshi Mining PLC offered...
Mrs Mweetwa and her son explain how their biogas stove works. They moved to this 15 hectare farm from a 10 hectare plot as part of Munali Nickel Mine's Resettlement Action Plan, and can now sell their surplus crops.
